Colorado's Gauntlet Hair took the stage at The Union on a bill that also included Gross Ghost, Times New Viking and Embarrassing Fruits

Last fall, Raleigh, NC held its first-ever Hopscotch Music Festival with some impressive headliners. The festival, featuring shows in small venues stretching across the smallish downtown, was a huge success and elevated Raleigh to indie heights it hadn't seen without being lumped with Durham/Chapel Hill. Well, Raleigh is one step closer to being the new Austin, Texas: Hopscotch stuck, and the lineup for the 2011 Hopscotch has just been announced, causing jaws to drop everywhere. This year, the festival goes from September 8 through 10 and boasts quite a few big names: The Flaming Lips, Guided by Voices ...

New Raleigh has a great write up , but here are the details: Lineup All Tiny Creatures, Andrew Cedermark, Annuals, Apache Dropout, Apex Manor, Apple Juice Kid, Bandway, Barn Owl, Beach Fossils, Beans, Bird Peterson, Black Lips, Black Twig Pickers, The Body, Bombadil, Braids, The Budos Band, Bustello, Caltrop, The Caribbean, Carlitta Durand, Cassis Orange, Charlie Smarts, Cheyenne Marie Mize, Chip Robinson, Cold Cave, D&D; Sluggers, Dan Melchior und Das Menace, David Daniell, Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross, Des Ark, Dinosaur Feathers, Disappears, The Dodos, Drive-By Truckers, Duane Pitre Sextet, Dustin Wong, Dylan Gilbert, Earth, Embarrassing Fruits, Empress Hotel, Family Dynamics ...

New album to be released March 8 th . Bui to appear in Austin at My Old Kentucky Blog party March 18 th . +++ +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “‘Geisha’ Means ‘Open Minded’” is the second single from the upcoming Carol Bui album, Red Ship [STREAM + WIDGET]: http://official.fm/tracks/191480 [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/carolbui/mp3/carolbui-geishameansopenminded.mp3 +++ Carol Bui In The Press “...culturally unique and universal, beautiful and harrowing, frequently within a single song...” – My Old Kentucky Blog “...soaring melodic hard rock with engrossing sincerity -- as Bob Mould has proven, you can’t B.S. a cello.” – Pitchfork “...an ...

New album to be released March 8 th . Bui to appear in Austin at My Old Kentucky Blog party March 18 th . +++ +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “‘Geisha’ Means ‘Open Minded’” is the second single from the upcoming Carol Bui album, Red Ship [STREAM + WIDGET]: http://official.fm/tracks/191480 [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/carolbui/mp3/carolbui-geishameansopenminded.mp3 +++ Carol Bui In The Press “...culturally unique and universal, beautiful and harrowing, frequently within a single song...” – My Old Kentucky Blog “...soaring melodic hard rock with engrossing sincerity -- as Bob Mould has proven, you can’t B.S. a cello.” – Pitchfork “...an ...

As a music blog based out of Durham, NC, it’s likely my duty to support local music. The good thing is, I don’t have to see it as a duty at all because there is so much local talent around here. If you didn’t know, Durham is the home of all-star label Merge Records . Aside from that big shot, we’ve got tons of smaller labels scattered around the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). One that stands out in my mind is DiggUp Tapes. They’re a label that prides itself in the DIY-ways of making music ...

stream: Birds of Avalon — “Guffaws” stream: Gross Ghost — “You Tell Me” Hottt new tape release from Raleigh’s DiggUp Tapes, Brian Corum (Walker">Lonnie Walker) and Nathan Price adding to the already thick scene. I don’t usually do comps, but new trackz from Walker">Lonnie Walker, Embarrassing Fruits, Gross Ghost, Birds of Avalon and Snails made [...]

The after-Thanksgiving show line-up in the Triangle looks to be a good one, starting with three fine shows on Tuesday of all nights. If you're into metal, you do not want to miss Crowbar , Black Tusk (one of my current favorite bands) and Chapel Hill's MAKE. If you're into New Wavish singer-songwriters, you do not want to miss Amy Rigsby and Wreckless Eric at Motorco. But yours truly will be spending Tuesday at one of my favorite, and I believe most underrated downtown watering holes: Isaac Hunter's Tavern . I love this place for their N.C ...

Chapel Hill's Embarrassing Fruits write really fun songs about a lot of life's less fun moments - particularly those you might have experienced as a lazy 20-something with a crappy job, a dying relationship and a tendency to drink too much PRB. But even if you're a 40-something with a crappy job, a dying relationship and a tendency to drink too much PRB, you can still relate. Such well-crafted pop songs have garnered the band comparisons to Superchunk and Guided By Voices. They'll have a CD-release show this Friday (Sept. 17) at Duke Coffeehouse for their new ...

This week's batch of .mp3s starts off with Superchunk , who will release their latest, "Majesty Shredding," on Sept. 14. But the real big news here is that the band will be on Jimmy Fallon on Sept. 20, their first TV appearance since 1994! Here's "Digging for Something" from the new CD. "Digging for Something" by Superchunk Next up is the new single from Embarrassing Fruits , whose CD "Frontier Justice" will be out on Trekky Records on Sept. 17. Their CD-release show is Sept. 17 at Duke Coffeehouse with Walker">Lonnie Walker and Midtown Dickens. "Long Distance Breakup Summer ...

nur mal eben die liste derer, die dem drummer bei seiner zweiten solounternehmung unterstützten: devendra banhart, no age, guillermo scott herren (prefuse 73), greg saunier (deerhoof), carson mcwhirter (hella), nick reinhart (tera melos, bygones), robby moncrieff, "face tat" erscheint mitte oktober auf sargent house: zach hill - memo to the man "tall hours in the glowstream" wurde der nachfolger von "paranoid cocoon" betitelt, er wird am 24. august auf suicide squeeze records erscheinen und die ersten tunes klingen charmant nach e-country, verzwickt, aber lofi: cotton jones - glorylight and christie als wären jethro tull nie in dauerschlaf gefallen, ab oktober ist mit ...

Actually this post should just be called "Music of the Week" because two of these aren't .mp3s, and one of these isn't even local. That said, let's start off with a great new (to me anyway) heavy psychedelic band called Tasha-Yar . My understanding is that they former members of U.S. Christmas, and that they are from somewhere in the mountains. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of North Carolina geography, but I have no clue where Mackory Falls is. "Empty Hand" by Tasha-Yar Next up is "Frontier Justice," the first single from the album ...

ARTIST / BAND: Embarrassing Fruits MP3: "Long Distance Breakup Summer" ALBUM: Frontier Justice FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / LABEL: Trekky Records INFO: Trekky Records is thrilled and honored to announce the details for the release of Frontier Justice , the new album from Embarrassing Fruits . In many ways, Frontier Justice is the first fully realized album from the band. After a series of line-up changes, album delays and promising EPs, this will be the first timely artistic statement from a now permanent trio: Joe Norkus, Lee Shaw and John Neville. Bassist Lee Shaw has risen to become an equal creative force in the ...

Less than a year ago, Chapel Hill-based trio Embarrassing Fruits was demoing new material for the follow-up to last year's "Community / Exploitation"

Do you really need me to tell you why this Saturday's TRK Fest  at Piedmont Biofuels in Pittsboro is the show of the week? OK, here are a few reasons: * A full day of bands, including Megafaun, Mount Moriah and Ryan Gustafson. * Awesome food vendors including Only Burger (yours truly hasn't tried them, but I see at least one Facebook update a day from one of their many rapturous fans) * A chance for those of you who are upset over the oil spill to tour Piedmont Biofuels and learn how to be less dependent on fossil fuels * Pants-off ...